Beulah P. (Goff) Hibbs (1990)

COLE, GOFF, HIBBS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 6/25/2006 at 08:33:57

Winterset Madisonian - February 28, 1990

Services for Beulah P. Hibbs, 99, Earlham, who died February 22 at Mercy Hospital Medical Center, were held February 24 at the Friends Church in Earlham with the Rev. Eldon Cole officiating. Burial was at the Earlham Cemetery.

She was born June 13, 1890 in Madison Township, Madison County, the daughter of Ruel Powell and Tolitha Jane Goff, and attended school through the eighth grade at a country school in Madison township before graduating from the Earlham Academy in the class of 1909.

She was married on March 5, 1915 to Forrest J. Hibbs in San Diego, Calif. In 1916 the couple moved to a farm near Earlham where they lived for 24 years. They then moved to her childhood home and resided there 28 years before moving to Earlham. She had lived the past five years at the Earlham Care Manor.

Survivors include a son, Robert and wife Helen of Earlham; a daughter, Mary Jane Cole and husband Bill of LaSalle, Colo.; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, parents and eight brothers and sisters.

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